It is on the technology side that the first effective tools arrive against the Covid-19. From Oxford to MIT, via Imperial College in London, the Faculty of Medicine in Hanover or the Agostino Medical Center in Milan, IT researchers from major world universities are designing tools that will facilitate the implementation implementation of the strategy recommended by WHO: trace, test and treat.
A strategy masterfully carried out in Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore - but made possible by the massive and systematic use of surveillance of movements as symptoms, and by very fine tracing of all meetings with people infected within 14 days of the onset of symptoms. All by monitoring citizens' mobile phones, whose geolocalized data have been systematically cross-checked with health data. Without any invasion of privacy
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